Roberto J. Vidrí

Surgical oncologists treating gastric cancer — your input matters. Complete this SSO GI DSWG survey on staging laparoscopy for gastric cancer and help define current practice patterns and future research directions. Survey: surveymonkey.com/r/SSOGISurvey @AhmedDehalMD @SocSurgOnc

Ivermectin about to re-enter the chat for hantavirus… 🙄

@PatricioPolanc0 @TomVargheseJr Felicidades, Patricio!

Excited to share that I will be joining Atrium Health & Advocate Health as Division Chief of Surgical Oncology, inaugural Richard L. White Jr. Endowed Professor of Surgery at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and Surgeon-in-Chief Atrium Health Levine Cancer in Charlotte, North Carolina. I will also have the privilege to serve in the Scientific Committee of IRCAD-North America. Thankful to @BrentDMatthews , Dr. Ruben Mesa @mpdrc, Eugene Woods for their trust and support. I welcome the challenges and opportunities ahead: to build at scale, expand access to complex cancer care, and integrate surgery, innovation, technology, and research across a multistate system. @LevineCancer @AtriumHealth @advocatehealth @wakeforestmed Eternally grateful for the mentors, colleagues, and trainees who shaped this journey 🙏

@rbarbosa91 @ZhiVenFongMD @liveRPancSurg @acsJACS @egbert_lena @DillonCheung @PeiWenLimMD @TanPoHong2 @IrvingJorgeMD @TomVargheseJr @MayoAZSurg @SSATNews @IHPBA @SAGES_Updates I ask this question very often. Trainees, and an entire generation of surgeons, have been taught that “bailing” is the safe answer to a “difficult” GB. Unless relatively straight forward, there is no interest - or skillset - in calling an experienced colleague and opening.

@ZhiVenFongMD @liveRPancSurg @acsJACS @egbert_lena @DillonCheung @PeiWenLimMD @TanPoHong2 @IrvingJorgeMD @TomVargheseJr @MayoAZSurg @SSATNews @IHPBA @SAGES_Updates On another note, is anyone asking the question: Why, in this era where the surgeons have more advanced laparoscopic training than ever before, are there more subtotal cholecystectomies than previously? Is the disease (cholecystitis) worse than it was 30 years ago? 🤔

🧵1/ Your partner sees a pt who has remnant cholecystitis s/p a subtotal CCY last year, and laments that this is an epidemic of the push for more subtotals as a bailout. We explore this question in our article in @acsJACS & 🧵below. journals.lww.com/journalacs/abs…

Small-bites fascial closure after elective midline laparotomy reduced long-term risk and size of incisional hernia vs traditional large-bites technique, supporting small bites as standard practice for abdominal closure. ja.ma/4di06iV

Some invitations mean more than others. Being invited to speak at the Congreso Internacional de Cirugía in El Salvador—my home—is one of them. 🇸🇻 Grateful for the chance to return, share, and give back. @Ascg01

Honored to be part of the Fundamentals of Research & Professional Development Course in El Salvador —a meaningful opportunity to give back at home. Grateful to @realgmolina @Ascg01 @AcademicSurgery and @LatinoSurgery for making this possible.

Another success engaging with young Salvadoran trainees during our first @AcademicSurgery Fundamentals of Surgical Research course in El Salvador, thanks to the visionary initiative of @realgmolina! @MonicaDuaMD @APLoehrer @RobertoVidri @drjosephlopez

Sobering graph. 👇🏼👇🏼

So great to 👀the #HAI ⛽️Consortium #HCRN grow every year with new members. New pic 📸tradition @AHPBA #AHPBA26 Thank you🙏@michael_lidsky @DrMikeCavnar @TheNotoriousHPB for your leadership. Now let’s get @eaonc EA2222 accrued and start working on the next trial concept 👍🏽

This is a legitimate call out. We lack criteria as to what constitutes an “expert”. Not only for meetings, but also for expert consensus guideline publications We actually need an expert consensus on what constitutes an expert!! @STS_CTsurgery @AATSHQ @annalsthorsurg

At the LSS Surgical Symposium, our Keynote Lecture is named in honor of Dr. Carlos A. Pellegrini, a surgeon-leader former Chair of Surgery and Past President of the ACS and ASA. This lecture carries his name to recognize his lasting legacy in surgery, leadership, and mentorship.

Six techniques for artery first Whipple. @juliomayol @TomVargheseJr @SAGES_Updates

I’m often asked about port placement for different cases, but the principle is actually very simple. Position the camera about 20 cm from the target anatomy—whether that’s the gallbladder, appendix, liver, pancreas, uterus, or anything else. Then place the remaining trocars roughly 8 cm apart. I personally prefer having two “right arms,” with the camera in port 2, but that’s just preference. You can just as easily put the camera in port 3 and work with two left hands—it really doesn’t matter much. This approach works for essentially any case. The example shown is for the upper abdomen. If your target is in the lower abdomen, simply flip the image upside down; if it’s lateral, rotate it sideways 😃 @IntuitiveSurg #roboticsurgery

We need to stop treating fame as expertise.

A friend of mine used to say: "Confidence isn’t built by thinking positive thoughts. It’s built by doing difficult things while your brain screams at you to stop." Damn, was he right.

A wise mentor once told me: “Before you play the game, study the winners. If you don’t want their life, don’t play their game.”

Is minimally invasive (robot) #Whipple surgery just as safe as open surgery? Today: #DIPLOMA2 RCT in @NEJMEvidence ➡️ evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… 288 patients, 14 expert centers, 6 countries 🇳🇱🇮🇹🇩🇪🇧🇪🇪🇸🇸🇪): MIS equally safe as open in experienced centers. With faster recovery, fewer wound complications, less pancreatic fistula, and a shorter hospital stay. @nine_degraaf @AnoukEmmen @Abuhilal9Abu @e_mips @EAHPBA

Congratulations @AMVillanoMD one of our all-star @FoxChaseSurgOnc #Surgeons for being named a 2026 @SocSurgOnc Presidential Scholar - Amazing @FoxChaseCancer @AcademicSurgery @AmColSurgCancer @AmCollSurgeons @PhilaAcademyCS @TempleHealth

Dinamarca monitoreó a más de 1.2 millones de niños durante 24 años. No se encontró ninguna relación entre vacunas y autismo, asma u otras 48 afecciones. Las vacunas funcionan. Son seguras, eficaces y salvan vidas. Punto. No hay más.